A woman helps her husband breathe with a hand ventilator after he had to have his leg amputated at the Divine Word hospital, which was still operating without power seven days after Typhoon Haiyan struck Tacloban.

United Teachers Los Angeles union members including Will Elston, a high school special education teacher, center, rally outside LAUSD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles to call for pay raises in light of the passage of Proposition 30.

The National Park Service has begun removing the scaffolding that was erected around the Washington Monument to allow crews to repair the obelisk, which was damaged in an earthquake in August 2011. It has been closed to the public ever since, and the park service hopes it will reopen in the spring. It will take about three months for the scaffolding to be gone.

Demonstrators scuffle with police during a student rally in Turin, Italy. Students were protesting all over the country against the government's austerity measures and cuts in the education system planned in the 2014 budget bill.

Fernando Vérgez Alzaga lies prostrate before being elevated to bishop during a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Pope Francis canceled his morning audiences Friday because of a cold, the first time the industrious pope is known to have slowed his busy schedule due to illness.

Travis White and other volunteers with Unified We Serve at Cal State Northridge in Southern California places thousands of collected food items on the steps of the campus library Wednesday. The items, including clothing, books and toys, will be donated to Meet Each Need with Dignity.

San Bernardino County sheriff's investigators on Wednesday excavate a grave on the outskirts of Victorville, Calif., containing what they suspect are the skeletal remains of multiple people. A motorcyclist on Monday found the first set of remains and reported it to the Sheriff's Department, officials said in a written statement.

A woman in the Indonesian village of Tigapancur holds her daughter as Mt. Sinabung spews pyroclastic smoke. As many as 4,300 residents have been evacuated from five villages in North Sumatra due to the volcanic eruptions.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, left, and Maria Tereza Goulart, the widow of former Brazilian President (1961-64) Joao "Jango" Goulart, place a wreath over the coffin of the former leader at Brasilia's air base. His remains were exhumed Wednesday at a cemetery in Sao Borja, near the Argentinian border, to determine if he was poisoned.

A man walks by broken palm trees on the outskirts of Tacloban, Philippines, on the eastern island of Leyte. Scores of decaying bodies from Typhoon Haiyan were being taken to mass graves as authorities grappled with the disposal of the dead.

A young Bulgarian couple kiss during an anti-government protest Wednesday in downtown Sofia. Forty-eight people were arrested and four, including a police officer, were injured in clashes that broke out during a protest to press for the resignation of Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski's Socialist-backed government, Bulgarian police said.

Men and women in Kabul, Afghanistan, gather to commemorate Ashura, an annual holy day throughout the Muslim world. Ceremonial chest beating and other types of self-flagellation are a display of their devotion.

Palestinian militants of the Izzedine Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing, display their skills during an anti-Israel parade as part of the celebrations marking the first anniversary of an Israeli army operation in the Gaza Strip.

The skeleton of a woman from Salzmuende is shown in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, Germany. Funeral rites and graves are the focus of the new special exhibition "3,300 BC - Mysterious Stone Age Dead and Their World."

Activists wear masks of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and the leader of the Social Democratic Party, Sigmar Gabriel, as they demonstrate for the introduction of nationwide referendums while the party and members of the conservative CDU/CSU union met for coalition talks in Berlin.

Ukrainian riot policemen stand in front of activists holding a banner bearing the picture of Yulia Tymoshenko and reading "Free Yulia, free Ukraine" during a demonstration held in front of the parliament in Kiev.

Iranians distribute food in the village of Ahaar to needy people during the Ashura mourning feast. The day commemorates the anniversary of death of the third Shiite Imam Hussein, who was grandson of Muslim Prophet Mohammed.

An Iranian Muslim Shiite impersonates the role of Zaafar Jinni, the king of Muslim genies, the spiritual creatures mentioned in the Koran, during the annual religious performance of "Taazieh" in the Iranian town of Noosh Abad, marking the mourning period of Ashura.

Tears stream down the face of 10-year-old James Dotson of Bellflower as he attends a candlelight vigil for his cousin Elawnza Peebles,14, in in Los Angeles. Elawnza was fatally shot as he was walking home in the 4600 block of Kansas Avenue near 46th Street Friday evening.

A Filipino woman holding a baby runs during a downpour in the super typhoon-devastated city of Tacloban, Philippines. International aid poured in for the Philippines as authorities stepped up efforts to reach survivors driven to looting after one of the world's strongest typhoons devastated their towns. A tropical depression brought heavy rains over the central and eastern Philippines, where provinces badly hit by Haiyan are located, raising concerns that relief operations would be hampered.

A boy looks at the debris of destroyed houses in Tacloban after Super Typhoon Haiyan, the most powerful storm in the world this year, hit the Philippines. The Philippine government said it had deployed armored vehicles, set up checkpoints and imposed a curfew to help end looting.

Lee Roeser, right, a lead wrangler in front of 100 mules as they march on Western Avenue making their way from Brand Park in Glendale to the Los Angeles Equestrian Center in Burbank as part of the 100th anniversary celebration of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Artist Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio organizers began the journey in Lone Pine, Calif., on Oct. 18 and have traversed more than 240 miles, walking the length of the aqueduct with the animals.

Afghan government officials and policemen watch as a cache of alcohol and drugs burn in Kabul, Afghanistan. Opium, heroin, morphine, hashish and thousands of bottles alcohol and beer were destroyed as part of a fight against drugs amid a surge in opium cultivation government, officials said.

A Shia Muslim walks across burning embers during the Ashura festival in Yangon, Myanmar. Shia Muslims mark the Day of Ashura as a day of mourning for the death of the grandson of Prophet Muhammad. Devotees recite prayers, flagellate themselves and walk on fire to mark the day of mourning.

A Syrian boy holds bottles of water in a refugee camp in the town of Harmanli, south-east of Sofia, Bulgaria. Bulgaria's asylum centers are severely overcrowded after the arrival of almost 10,000 refugees this year, half of them Syrian. The influx has fueled anti-immigrant sentiment in a country already struggling with dire poverty.

Afghan refugee Hasanat Mohammed, 5, poses for a picture while standing outside his home in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan hosts over 1.6 million registered Afghans, the largest and most protracted refugee population in the world, according to the U.N. refugee agency. Thousands of them still live without electricity, running water and other basic services.

Marine Corps veteran Steven Bell, 49, salutes during the presentation of the colors during a Veterans Day observance at the Midnight Mission in downtown Los Angeles. The event also included patriotic music, testimonials and a color guard.

A visitor at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington passes early in the morning on Veterans Day on Monday to look at the names inscribed on the wall. Several ceremonies are scheduled in the nation's capital to honor those who have served in the U.S. military including a wreath laying at Vietnam War Memorial. The Washington Monument is at right.

World War II veteran Harry Marrington, from Portsmouth, England, leans down to pick up a paper poppy during an Armistice Day ceremony under the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium, on Monday. The Menin Gate Memorial bears the names of more than 54,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are not known.

People walk among debris next to a ship washed ashore in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan at Anibong in Tacloban, eastern island of Leyte on Monday. Hundreds of Philippine soldiers and police poured into a city devastated by Typhoon Haiyan to try to contain looting that threatens an emergency relief effort.

A Palestinian kicks a burning tire toward Israeli security forces (unseen) in a demonstration in the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday, marking the ninth anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat, the former PLO chairman and Palestinian president. Recent reports by a Swiss forensic team conclude that Arafat was poisoned to death by polonium-210, but a Russian teams thinks the results are inconclusive.

Ground personnel carry International Space Station crew member Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin near his capsule after it landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan on Monday.

Residents flee the area following the eruption of Sinabung volcano at Kuta Gugung village, in Karo on Sunday. No casualties were reported. Some 1,710 people have been evacuated since Mount Sinabung in western Indonesia erupted, according to Indonesia's Disaster Mitigation Agency.

The Week in Pictures | Nov. 11–17, 2013

Each week we bring you the very best in visual journalism. We begin our report in the Philippines with the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, where an international aid effort gathered steam and resilient Filipinos in battered towns have started the process of rebuilding their lives and those of their neighbors – with or without help from their government or foreign aid groups. Under fire for what critics say is the slow pace of its typhoon relief effort, the Philippine government Friday defended its handling of what might be the worst natural disaster in recent history. More photos

Washington, D.C: The National Park Service began removing the scaffolding that was erected to allow crews to repair the Washington Monument, which was damaged in an earthquake in August 2011. It has been closed to the public ever since, and the park service hopes it will reopen in the spring. It will take about three months for the scaffolding to be gone.

Ahaar, Iran: Iranians distribute food to needy people during the Ashura mourning feast. The day commemorates the anniversary of the death of the third Shiite Imam Hussein, who was grandson of Muslim prophet Mohammed.

Medan, Indonesia: Mt. Sinabung spews pyroclastic smoke near the village of Tigapancur. As many as 4,300 residents have been evacuated from five villages in North Sumatra due to the volcanic eruptions. The volcano has been erupting for several days, spewing ash and lava 2.5 miles into the sky.

Kabul, Afghanistan: A cache of alcohol and drugs are burned as part of a fight against drugs amid a surge in opium cultivation, government officials said.

Turin, Italy: Demonstrators scuffle with police during a student rally. Students were protesting all over the country against the government’s austerity measures and cuts in the education system planned in the 2014 budget bill.

Add stops in New York, Germany, Russia, Japan and Ukraine to round out the report.